This report was submitted a few days ago by a teacher who would like to be known as CB. Our apologies to CB, and our readers, for the delay in posting.
This morning I arrived at my new elementary-school-of-the-week and was assigned to a small CTT class as the General Ed partner of a very nice Special Education teacher. I was told that I would remain at that assignment until Friday.
The General Ed teacher in that classroom for the first month, it turns out, was also a member of the ATR, so he has now been placed elsewhere. Presumably, a new person will be in this position each week. This is certainly not a good situation for the Special Ed teacher. But it is much worse for the students. IN WHAT WAY IS IT GOOD, OR JUSTIFIABLE, FOR STUDENTS, ESPECIALLY NEEDY ONES, TO HAVE A NEW TEACHER EACH WEEK?
Yes, they have the stability provided by the appointed Special Education teacher. But they need assurance, familiarity, and safety, not the experience of constantly having to adapt to new primary adults in their lives.
The UFT is of two personalities.
ReplyDeleteOn the one hand, they post up principled sounding notices about administrators harassing teachers on SESIS issues.
And they push for the special education-designated students to be properly served.
Yet, much of the time, teachers are inveighed upon by administrators not to make special education or psychological referrals, because they don't want their schools to be labeled special educations schools.
Name the school!
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